Posts tagged “Ebb Software”

We'll need to wait a while longer to explore the biomechanical guts and gristle of FPS-adventure Scorn [official site], to wander its corridors of cracked ribs and spy its fields of festering phallic protrusions. Developers Ebb Software say they're almost done with the first of its two chapters but, on reflection, they'd rather take more time and polish it up for a 2018 launch rather…

When the Scorn trailer came out a couple of weeks back I was fascinated by its aesthetic. It has that potent mixture of architecture and biology which skims so close to revulsion but is also incredibly beautiful. It reminded me of conversations about abjection from art history, of ideas about transgressing bodily boundaries, of monstrous organs, dripping fluids... But I wanted to know what Scorn's…

Several games have waved H.R. Giger's subliminal dicks and fannies in our faces, mostly through Alien connections, but in recent years I've seen few go for it quite as much as Scorn [official site]. It's an upcoming mix of first-person shooter and adventure game, with all the biomechanical ribbing, pumping, throbbing, squicking, and glistening of Giger with touches of Zdzisław Beksiński and David Cronenberg. I've…